A coach of the Bayonne rugby club and a former physical trainer of the Basque team will be tried in February for "violence in meetings" after the aggression of two caregivers from the emergencies of a clinic in Biarritz, we learned. Wednesday at the prosecutor's office.
Tuesday around 7:00 a.m., in a state of intoxication, they had an altercation with a nurse and a nurse from the Aguilera clinic, after being refused access, for health reasons, to an emergency area where to be admitted one of their friends, detailed the parquet floor of Bayonne.
Released under judicial supervision at the end of their police custody on Wednesday, the two men - specialist coach Antoine Battut and ex-preparer Cyril Gomes according to Sud Ouest - will be tried on February 23 for "violence in meetings on persons entrusted with a public service mission”, indicated the same source.
During the altercation, a nurse received "blows", resulting in a total incapacity for work (ITT) for two days, and the nurse's aide had a twisted finger resulting in one day of ITT.
The management of the Bayonne club of the Top 14 assured Wednesday in a press release that it would receive “as soon as possible the employee concerned” and condemned “firmly these facts which took place in a private context (…) during a period of leave ".
Battut, 38, is a former 3rd line trained in Toulouse and passed by Racing, Montpellier and Bayonne where he ended his career in 2020. Since then, he had joined the technical staff of Aviron as a specialist coach in the key.